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Lia DeGroot

Trump drops Casey Means, picks Nicole Saphier for surgeon general

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President Donald Trump dropped Casey Means’ nomination for surgeon general and named radiologist and Fox News contributor Nicole Saphier for the role after Means struggled to clinch the support to advance her nomination. 

Saphier is an associate professor at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York City. She is the host of the iHeart Radio podcast, “Wellness Unmasked with Dr. Nicole Saphier” and has served as a Fox News medical contributor since 2018, according to her LinkedIn profile. 

She has advocated in the past against administering COVID-19 vaccines to children, citing possible heart complications, and during the pandemic she spoke out against masking of children and school closings. She has authored several books, including “Make America Healthy Again” and “Panic Attack: Playing Politics with Science in the Fight Against COVID-19.” 

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